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Word: darleeng (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waste of Time & Money. These homely activities made sense to the France that bred Antoine Pinay-not the American tourist's France of roasted chestnuts and rhinestoned poodles on the Champs-Ely-sées, "Allo darleeng" in the Place Pigalle, pressed duck at the Tour d'Argent, bikinis at Biarritz and baccarat at Nice-but the provincial France of hard-scraped farms, gnarled vineyards, smudgy little factories; of closefisted small shopkeepers, scuff-knuckled farmers and black-stockinged bakers' daughters. It is a France tradition-bound, slow to change, as stolid, solid and unspectacular as the pallid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man with a Voter's Face | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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